Category: Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy the Forgotten Election Campaign Issue

Foreign policy has hardly been discussed amid the election campaign despite evidence of a more interconnected world for a medium-sized open trading nation like Canada


Conservative Platform Takes On Task of Countering Beijing Threat

Commentary In this election, it is imperative that leaders show they recognize the reality of China as a rising, antagonistic superpower with which we can no longer endeavour to be partners. Also crucial is that they articulate a well-designed plan to handle Beijing as it continues to make the international order more unpredictable. So far,…


US Foreign Policy Cause for Concern

Commentary It is a worrisome time for those who follow or are to any extent dependent upon American foreign policy. The Biden administration began very slowly on Cuba, having followed meekly in the tracks of the Obama appeasement of that appalling regime. The well-known pro-Castro enthusiasm of Senator Bernie Sanders, chief author of the Democratic…


Why Xi Jinping Demanded the CCP to Soften Its Foreign Policy Aggression

Commentary China’s “wolf warriors” may have to start behaving. Xi Jinping recently delivered a speech to senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, calling on them to create an image of a “credible, lovable and respectable China,” according to a report by state-run media Xinhua. Xi told the officials to get a “grip on their diplomatic…


Trudeau To Discuss Foreign Policy With G7 Leaders at Second Day of Summit Meeting

CARBIS BAY, CORNWALL, England—Foreign policy is on the agenda for a meeting between international leaders gathered on a beachside village in England to strategize on how best to tackle some of their most pressing challenges, including China. Leaders at the G7 summit, hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, are set to discuss international affairs…


Kash Patel Responds to Allegations and Reflects on Declassifications, Pursuing Al-Baghdadi, and Exposing Uyghur Genocide

Many of us first learned about the name Kash Patel after reading Lee Smith’s book “The Plot Against the President” or watching the documentary of the same name. Attacks against Patel, by people connected to that plot, have persisted to this day. A former DOJ prosecutor, he was personally recruited by Congressman Devin Nunes to…


Kash Patel Responds to Accusers and Talks Declassifications, Killing Al-Baghdadi, and Exposing Uyghur Genocide

Many of us first learned about the name Kash Patel after reading Lee Smith’s book “The Plot Against the President” or watching the documentary of the same name. Attacks against Patel, by people connected to that plot, have persisted to this day. A former DOJ prosecutor, he was personally recruited by Congressman Devin Nunes to…


Religious Liberty and US Foreign Policy: No Longer the Guiding Principle?

Commentary Reproduced from Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China On March 30, US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, announced what some saw as a fundamental change in American foreign policy. The US, Blinken said presenting the Department of State’s 45th annual report on human rights in the world, will “repudiate the unbalanced…


Tory MPs Push Johnson on China Over Foreign Policy and Security Revamp

Some leading backbench Tory MPs have criticized the government’s long-awaited foreign policy and defence revamp for not going far enough when it comes to China. The Integrated Review, published yesterday, designated China as a “systemic challenge” and spelled out a pivot to the Indo-pacific to push back against Beijing’s dominance. Announcing the review—which was billed…


Blinken Says ‘No Concessions Whatsoever’ to Beijing Ahead of Meeting With Top Chinese Officials

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on March 10 he intends to lay out in “very frank terms” the United States’ “deep objections” to Beijing’s behavior in a meeting with top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials next week. He added that the United States will not make any concessions to the Chinese regime to get…